Wednesday, July 3, 2013

But the smile remains floating on your lips……….

Often in our life we reach to some point where we are living
away from our family and friends, in a new town, at a new place, with new faces
around you and sometimes even a new language and culture. The friends with whom
you spent your college are all engrossed in their work and life. The frequency
of phone calls to each other decreases exponentially. You are too much busy in
your work life that you don’t even have time to know who is living in your
adjacent apartment. It is in such scenario that one day suddenly you start
feeling like crap and you want to leave everything and just sit idle somewhere.
You take a small break from your work for coffee, go the office balcony and
look down at the people on the ground floor, how small they appear to be from
such a height and soon you are lost in your own thoughts. Thoughts from some
happy moments with your friends in past, thoughts of your old crush or
girlfriend and a small smile floats on your lips. You take a deep sigh and wish
you had someone around here, with you, someone who listens to all your
nonsense, someone who laughs when you laugh, with whom you want to hang-out, whose smile is the sweetest thing you could
ever taste. Slowly you start forming an image of such a person in your mind and
start smiling at the imaginary talks with this person.
How you two walk side by
side on a cool evening, the breeze flowing through your hairs and you two
exchanging eye contacts now and then. Sometimes talking and sometimes
listening, ignorant to everything surrounding you two, walking down an unknown
road. And after a few minutes you realize that you have been smiling from ear
to ear and then you give a small slap at the back of your head, still smiling at the
silly thoughts and slowly start moving towards your desk. But the smile remains
floating on your lips……….